by Ken Sande | Sep 3, 2017 | Home Page, RW Blog
A few days ago, a woman told me a heart-breaking story about her pastor. Cindy was born and raised at First Church, and Pastor Smith’s teaching had laid the foundation for her faith (all names changed). He had been like a second father to Cindy, gently guiding her...
by Ken Sande | Aug 27, 2017 | Home Page, RW Blog, RW Movie Blog
There are two things you and I were never designed to experience: death and rejection. That is why they both feel so foreign and hurt so much: they are utterly contrary to what we were made for. When God created the world, everything in it was “very good†(Gen....
by Ken Sande | Aug 20, 2017 | Home Page, RW Blog
Cindy and Clark went to their pastor, Paul, for marriage counseling (names changed but story used by permission). After several meetings, the three of them somehow reached the inexplicable conclusion that the solution to their marital distress was to give their...
by Ken Sande | Aug 14, 2017 | Home Page, RW Blog
I share a lust with St. Augustine. Although he was a pillar of the church, he regularly prayed, “O Lord, deliver me from this lust of always vindicating myself.†We all inherited this lust from our original parents, who invented the art of excusing sin by blaming...
by Ken Sande | Aug 6, 2017 | Home Page, RW Blog
My daughter, Megan, was eighteen months old when she decided to test her smile on a Hells Angel. Just before a vacation in Jackson, Wyoming, she had learned what a fun response she could get from adults when she beamed a big smile and gave them an enthusiastic,...
by Ken Sande | Jul 30, 2017 | Home Page, RW Blog
Three months before graduating from law school, I decided I did not want to be a lawyer. Two years of interning for a plaintiff’s attorney had shown me that the adversarial system brought out my worst characteristics: pride, aggressiveness, and a compulsive desire...
